Jazmin Zatarain Salazar
Expert in AI-Based Decision Support and Environmental Policy Analysis
About Me
Jazmin Zatarain Salazar serves as an Assistant Professor in Policy Analysis at TU Delft's Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, where she also co-directs the Hippo AI Lab. Her academic journey includes a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University and postdoctoral research at Politecnico di Milano's Environmental Intelligence lab. Her research integrates hydrologic sciences, artificial intelligence, and multi-objective optimization to address complex water and environmental challenges. She specializes in uncertainty analysis, transboundary river basin management, and model-based decision support, focusing particularly on integrating distributional outcomes in environmental policy decisions. Through her work at the Hippo AI Lab, she develops AI-based decision support systems for water and climate-economy systems, emphasizing the importance of understanding uncertainty in problem structuring and modeling for environmental policy making.